This
summary is dedicated to all those who have contributed, as indicated by
the
authors of each paper.

Unless
otherwise stated, these discoveries apply to humans and other primates.
All the
investigations are being performed in order to understand better the
human
brain in health and in disease, and with potential applications to
medicine
always in mind.

The
discoveries are being made as part of a program of research to follow
sensory
processing (including taste, olfactory and visual) through their
cortical
analysis stages, and then on to brain systems involved in emotion and
in
memory. By this systematic analysis and comparison between stages and
systems it
is becoming possible to understand what is being computed at each major
stage
of cortical processing.

This
then provides a firm foundation for further investigations into how the
processing is performed computationally, to lead to a deep and
multidisciplinary
understanding of brain function: what is computed, and how it is
computed.